[Unedited] John O'Donohue with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Mystery of Thought
i trye to write 15 sonnets on the structure of the rosary. And i also used it as an archetype for all kinds of birth, because i think that seeing is birth really consciousnes. So this is the nativity. No man reaches where the moon touches a woman, even the moon leaves her. When she opens deeper into the ripple in her womb that encircles dark to become flesh and bone, some one is coming ashore. Inside her, a face deciphers itself from water, and she curves around the gathering wave, opening to offer the life it craves. In a corner, stall of pilgrim strangers, she falls and heaves, holding a
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